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Engage and Coach Through the Messy Middle
An excerpt from the book Project Based Teaching gives practical advice for coaching students during a PBL unit.
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A Lesson Learned On Working With Experts in PBL: How To Prepare Them and Your Students
In my second year of teaching, I had the opportunity to mentor a group of fifth-grade students as part of the IB Primary Years
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Making Work Time Work in PBL
How teachers can engage students in their learning and scaffold the process for project work.
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PBL in IB Middle Years Programme: Academic Knowledge for Principled Action
How the International Baccalaureate program aligns with Gold Standard PBL's 7 Essental Project Design Elements.
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Reimagining Art in PBL
How art can be used not only for creating products but to enhancie all of Gold Standard PBL's Essential Project Design Elements.
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Voice and Vision: Engaging Students in School Design
How a rural elelmentary school launched its program by involving students in planning a garden project.
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How to Improve (or Abandon) Some “Classic” Initial Ideas for Projects
PBLWorks Editor in Chief John Larmer suggests ways to make typical projects more rigorous, engaging, and aligned with Gold Standard PBL.
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Creating a Culture of Belonging
The principal of a low-income school tells how its staff involved parents & students in design thinking and modeled the PBL process.
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Making Project Based Learning a Gift for the Gifted
High-achieving students can face their own challenges in PBL; here are 4 ways to provide scaffolding for them.
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Scheduling an Interdisciplinary Project
How a PBL high school made time for project work and content learning in math, ELA, PE, art, Spanish, and digital media classes.